Addictive Summer Reading Lists for Kids of All Ages

Want to get your kids addicted to reading all summer? Sometimes it just takes finding the right book or series of books. I’ve rounded-up my favorite books, ideas beyond Harry Potter. Many are in a series; many just recently published. These are so good, you’ll want to read them, too.

Melissa Taylor writes about education-related topics at her award-winning playful learning blog, Imagination Soup, and for publications such as Scholastic Parent and Child, Babble.com, Colorado Parent Magazine and others. She’s the Book Editor-at-Large for Colorado Parent Magazine, writing their book review blog, Bookmarkable and is a certified teacher with a M.A. in Education.

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Marie is founder and managing editor of Make and Takes, and author of the book, Make and Takes for Kids. Marie graduated with an Early Childhood and Elementary teaching degree and taught kindergarten over the years. She loves sharing her creativity here at Make and Takes!

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Oh, YEA! We always look forward to Melissa’s book recommendations…they never disappoint! One of our favorite series is the Good Knight books by Shelley Moore Thomas, a.k.a. “The Story Queen” (and elementary teacher). I can’t wait for summer to settle into these good summer reads! Thank you, thank you!

What a great list of books, I can’t wait to get reading. We started reading The Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne. My son (5) loves them. My daughter (4) listens but doesn’t enjoy them quite as much. It’s a nice jump into chapter books.

Wait till they shred through the chapter books. My eleven year old can read one in an hour. Loving this list looking for new ideas for books. Have been looking at lists for what they should read for college. And I always like looking at Sonlight catalog they always have good readers listed. My son is now an R.L. Stine fan.

Thanks for the additional suggestions – believe me, I could have kept going! I hope I gave you some new ideas for your kiddos. I’d love to hear more about what your children prefer to read. Anyone reading eBooks yet?

We just finished the Ranger’s Apprentice series (10 books–that will keep them busy for a while) and loved it. Even my husband was hooked. I would say 5th grade and up, but they are also fun to read to the 3-4 graders. Loved these books and the main kids are good kids/role models.

Great lists! Also, for middle grade you should definitely check out Sparrow Road by Sheila O’Connor and The Year We Were Famous by Carol Estby Dagg (based on a true story!) and for YA some of the other great reads from the Class of 2K11 http://www.classof2k11.com/

Thank you so much for this! As my boy is a new reader I’m having trouble keeping up with the right sort of materials for his newly acquired veracious apetite. He is going to LOVE the 1st to 3rd grade list, I know it. Off to the library! Thank you again.
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